NUTS_RG_01M_2013

This data set represents the regions for level 1, 2 and 3 of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) for 2013. The NUTS nomenclature is a hierarchical classification of statistical regions and subdivides the EU economic territory into regions of three different levels (NUTS 1, 2 and 3, respectively, moving from larger to smaller territorial units). NUTS 1 is the most aggregated level. The NUTS classification has been officially established through Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amendments. A non official NUTS-like classification has been defined for the EFTA countries and candidate countries. An introduction to the NUTS classification is available here: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/nuts_nomenclature/introduction This data set has been created mainly from the EuroBoundary Map v 8.x(Eurogeographics), geographic information from TurkStat for Turkey, the Global Administrative Unit Layer from FAO (UN) for Macedonia and a list of communes per statistical region provided by the countries. Available scales are 1M, 3M, 10M, 20M, 60M). Here six scale ranges (100K, 1M, 3M, 10M and 20M, 60M) are available. Coverage is the economical territory of the EU, EFTA countries and candidate countries as in 2013. This data has been generalised from 100K scale and therfore may not be an accurate depiction of the NUTS regions.
 
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. NUTS_RG_01M_2013. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/b4ab0a49-953a-4f45-afeb-24abcaedec8c

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  • SIMNORAT , SIMWESTMED , SIMAtlantic , SIMCelt
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geossAttribution
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Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
1000000
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Boundaries
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EPSG
Version
7.4.1
Topology level
Geometry only
Geometric object type
Composite
Geometric object count
1951
Distribution format
  • File Geodatabase Feature Class ()

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Date ( Creation )
2010-11-11
Explanation
See the referenced specification
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false
Statement
This dataset is based on: EuroBoundaryMap (EBM) v8.x. from EuroGeographics (scale of 1:100.000), Global Administrative Unit Layer (GAUL) 2013 country data from UN/FAO, data from the National Statistical Institute of Turkey (TurkStat), General Register Office for Scotland (GRO) (scale 1:100.000), Digital Chart of the World from ESRI for Kaliningrad, ArcWorld from ESRI for the Aral Sea, the Caspian Sea, some other borders. The different scale levels were derived by generalisation of the 100K scale. This data set consists of 2 feature classes (region polygons and boundaries) per scale level (100k, 1M, 3M, 10M, 20M, 60M). In addition there is also a label feature class (scale independent). This labelpoint feature class was created with a label inside each NUTS region at the 3 NUTS levels (1 - 3) and countries. Furthermore two line feature classes were created: one feature class for cartograhic joiners to identify where NUTS areas have one or more enclaves and a second line feature class for cartographic separators, to identify where the NUTS limits are in the sea. The arcs of two latter feature classes are only useful for cartographic purposes and are not meant to identify actual administrative or statistical boundaries stretching into the sea or any other significance. The boundaries and regions are related to each other through a relationship table. Associated tables contain basic information such as the region's name. The 5 small scale feature classes should be used exclusively for cartographic purposes. This data set is consistent at all scales with the following data sets: "Communes 2013 @ European Commission, Eurostat/GISCO", "Countries 2013, European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO", "Coastlines 2013, European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO", "Exclusive Economic Zones 2013, European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO" . Different tests were performed to ensure conceptual- , domain- and topological- consistency. Manual edits have been made to fix erros in the NUTS in Scotland caused by errros in the source EBM for UKM63 and UKM31.

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b4ab0a49-953a-4f45-afeb-24abcaedec8c   XML
Metadata language
English
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UTF8
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Dataset
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dataset
Date stamp
2020-11-06T10:06:52
Metadata standard name
INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules: Technical Guidelines based on EN ISO 19115 and EN ISO 19119
Metadata standard version
V. 1.2

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